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What’s love got to do with it? Employee engagement amongst higher education workers Cover

What’s love got to do with it? Employee engagement amongst higher education workers

The Irish Journal of Management
Volume 36 (2017): Issue 3 (December 2017)
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Open Access
|Dec 2017
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Figures & Tables

Table 1

Descriptive statistics, bivariate correlations and reliabilities

No.VariableMeanSD123
1Work engagement4.070.991(0.88)
2Organisational engagement3.010.9580.569**(0.90)
3POS2.211.3620.441**0.670**(0.83)
4Employee voice2.320.9130.1310.459**(0.85)

The value of Cronbach’s alpha is reported in parentheses POS = perceived organisational support; SD = standard deviation

** Correlations are significant at 0.01 level

** Correlations are significant at 0.01 level

** Correlations are significant at 0.01 level

** Correlations are significant at 0.01 level

Table 2

Organisational engagement scores in percentages

Scoring categories Strongly disagree% 12.3%
Disagree25.9%
Neither agree nor disagree45.7%
Agree12.3%
Strongly agree2.5
Table 3

Multiple regression analyses predicting work and organisational engagement

Job resourcesWork engagementOrganisational engagement
POS0.60**0.65**
Employee voice-0.0180.059
R20.260.47
Adjusted R20.240.46
F13.569**33.332**

Values are standardised b coefficients. POS = perceived organisational support.

** p < 0.01.

** p < 0.01.

** p < 0.01.

** p < 0.01.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijm-2017-0019 | Journal eISSN: 2451-2834 (formerly 1649-248X) | Journal ISSN: 1649-248X
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Language: English
Page range: 189 - 205
Published on: Dec 29, 2017
Published by: Irish Academy of Management
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year
Keywords:
employee engagement,
public sector,
job demands-resources model,
organisational support,
higher education
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Business management,
Marketing, sales, customer relations,
Management, organization, corporate governance,
Entrepreneurship,
Human resources, labor practice, job and career

© 2017 Orla Byrne, Joe MacDonagh, published by Irish Academy of Management
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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